Chapel Poems | Examples

Rock Chapel

Take the key
Loop it round your wrist
Stroll outside
Let hope persist
Up the hill
Where cattle graze
Electric fence
To manage strays
Follow grass
That bows and beckons
Squeaky gate
Rusty latch
Up the hillock
Breath to catch
Steep and winding
Knees that strain
Sensing stillness
Tensions drain
Atop the mound
A stoney chapel
With wooden door
And lock to grapple
But soon inside
The gorgeous light
Stained in colour
Mute, yet bright
A chair to sit
As eyes adjust..
A bible page
Wisdom to trust
The candle flickers
Waves you home
So many souls
Not so alone
You may recline..
Bathe your heart
Arrived have you
And yet to start
The inward trek
So sweet and long
The peaceful muse
Of angel song

Going To the Chapel of Love - Tb

They share a kiss
wedded bliss. She’s
not miss from now!

Austere Chapel-Exodus 17 9-12

austere chapel held up with clout of Aaron and Hur fidelity

Hymn and Her

worshipped from afar
pretty girl in chapel choir
Love Divine

Proposals For Upgrading a Company

It was a dragging argument
For the need to funds augment:
Ten voices in Duke's Department,
Their owners in Fred's Apartment;
Not sure of Duke's contentment
With talks on firm's new investment:
Mention of fridge,no compartment...
All men shouting: poor comportment!
"This company is reputed,
   Even as it is refuted"
   Still motives being imputed;
   To staff's quest for The Computed..."

Demanding The Computerized;
Not having staff characterized,
A chapel for The Lutherized,
Sick bay for sores not cauterized,
Release of machines customized,
Ears for complaints though glottalized;
The work load of staff minimised...

"Profit shall still be maximised."

Audio-Wise  And Odd symphony
Staff's voiced thoughts on 'strong company'.

Werner Chapel

god is 
what I don't know
high Gothic arches pierce the sky
to commemorate a body 
washed ashore on the bank of the Rhine
that inspired a wave of pogroms in 1287
a body, that became a saint
a body, that became a pilgrimage 
a body, that became an apology in 1996
for 
       "...the curse that we wrongly 
       put on the name of the Jew...
       because we didn't know what
       we were doing."  *

so, you can know god
but not know what you are doing
for fifteen hundred years

* John XXIII: Penitential Prayer "We Recognize..." Spoken June 3, 1963 at Vatican II

Pilgrimage To Capelinha

One
showing
herself to
precious few,
a moving Marian apparition.
Ah, but for one glimpse of the saintly soul,
A prayerful
long journey
to view
Her.

Goodbye Grey Lady

Silent Grey Lady glides into chapel
Amorphous figure dressed in haze
Ghostly figure from past so fragile
Should you see her she will amaze.

This chapel is where she does reside
Her silver aura oft-times appears
Delicate hand over candle glides
Grief profound through many years.

Should the Grey Lady to you appear
It would be kindness a candle to light
Perhaps this will allay her many fears
Finally, her spirit might just take flight.

The Roadside Chapel

Jane and Norman are going steady
Now are planning their wedding
They decided to wed 
At a roadside chapel
Off a country road
Their minister will 
Do the ceremony

Jane will have bridesmaids
A flower girl or two
Maids of honor will lead
Then the bride will follow
Walking slow to the groom
She is teary eye with joy

Photos taken outdoors
In front of the chapel 
People gather to watch
Phots are taken 
On a bright sunny day
Small groups groups gather
   to chat
Before leaving the chapel

Shrine

Eyes wide in wonder I entered the chapel
a curious child 
through the back door of the church
candles twinkling in the dim light
streaming through the stained glass
like colored candy
like lollipops
statues of saints standing sentry in silence 
staring soullessly
I startled for a moment as I thought I saw one move
an illusion of light and shadow
from the flames flitting and flickering 
the white wax melting and pooling
Veiled women and bearded men with sandaled feet
A man’s body bloodied and broken 
held in his mourning mother’s arms 
carved in marble
Morbid monuments to cruelty 
A shrine to suffering
The air heavy as velvet curtains
The scent of incense suffocating 
The ambiance eerie and funereal
Was he watching me? Was he here?
I called out
my voice echoing off the brick and stone
There was no answer
I was alone

Hiku Chapel Ceiling

abstract idealisation-
the impossible
made visible

Chapel Bells

The 
Ringing
Of chapel bells
Resonating in tune
On our favorite melodies,
Especially those golden-oldie hymns,
Harmonies for a hungry heart
Singing
Bells

HONORABLE MENTION
written June 20, 2021
for "Ring My Bell" Poetry Contest
sponsored by John Anderson

Sabbath Lie Mar-A-Lago Chapel

When the wife bent over downtown
It caused all of the nuns to frown
For - to their dismay -
Right there on display
Was alms for the poor upside-down!

Weeping In the Chapel

Alone in the chapel, falling apart
Unveiling the wounds of her tortured heart
Seeking solace in quiet of the night
Wishing and praying her instincts aren't right.

The true love of her life has gone astray
She saw him with someone else yesterday
Hoping she had got things completely wrong
That he'd been faithful to her all along.

She cannot believe that they may be through
And is undecided what she should do
He hasn't told her anything face to face
And hopes to be blessed with merciful grace.

She prayed that he would be back tomorrow
To sooth away the pain of her sorrow 
She could not stand the idea that he
Was in love with another somebody.

Suddenly there was a tap on her back 
She turned around, it was her sweetheart Jack
He kissed her and said in all honesty 
‘Twas his sister he was with yesterday.
19th December 2020
 ~*~*~*~*~
Best N-A poem of 2020 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton 
Placed 4th - Thank you John

A Rhyme Story-Poem With Eyes On - Poetry Contest
Date judged 23rd December 2020 - Received an N/A
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose

Significance of Chapel

C-hapel's
A-mazing
S-ignificance
T-ruly
I-nspires
L-etting
L-ocale's
E-vangelism
J-ust
O-perate
S-uccessfully

Form: Vertical Monocrostic

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